Sofa (ṣuppu)
Sofa (ṣuppu)
Akkadian ṣuppu, "thick, compacted (of textiles)" > Aramaic ṣippā/ṣuppā, "carded wool" > Arabic, Turkish "ṣuffa" > sofa.
With a remark from Dr. Nathaniel Miller on French niquer, and Akkadian nâku.
Spanish mesquin > Arabic miskīn > Akkadian muškēnu (𒈦𒂗𒆕). An impoverished person, destitute, or state dependent. From the Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BCE):
"If he has blinded the eye or broken the bone of a muškēnu, he shall pay 1 mina of silver."
With a correction from Gaby on my conflating of French and Spanish.